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For Stanley, an adorable English Bulldog Puppy, his trial run was a full rollercoaster of emotion. He arrived unsure and ...

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Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same.

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Horses and humans have had a close relationship for thousands of years, but did you know that horses, along with other animals, are being used to help ...